Azeri leader snubs Belgium’s Foreign Minister for ‘pro-Armenian’ statements – report

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has refused to meet with visiting Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib because of what Azeri news media described as the latter’s “pro-Armenian” statements made earlier in Yerevan.

Lahbib is visiting Baku August 24.

The Azeri APA news agency reported that President Aliyev usually meets visiting foreign ministers but he has snubbed Lahbib over her “pro-Armenian position."

Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib said during her visit to Armenia that Azerbaijan must open the Lachin Corridor and ensure the rights and security of the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS